Saint Quotes - page 15

Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There's a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them. (Orson Welles)
Saint Augustine ... insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity. View quote
Karen Armstrong
Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Samsara and Nirvana, illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. This only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. View quote
Hermann Hesse
Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's. View quote
Sun Myung Moon
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him. View quote
Clifford Geertz
The life of Lord Krishna has been misunderstood by many Western commentators. Scriptural allegory is baffling to literal minds. A hilarious blunder by a translator will illustrate this point. The story concerns an inspired medieval saint, the cobbler Ravidas, who sang in the simple terms of his own trade of the spiritual glory hidden in all mankind: Under the vast vault of blue Lives the divinity clothed in hide. One turns aside to hide a smile on hearing the pedestrian interpretation given to Ravidas' poem by a Western writer: "He afterwards built a hut, set up in it an idol which he made from a hide, and applied himself to its worship." View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it. View quote
Brendan Behan
He who has a false hope, has not that sight of his own corruptions which the saint has. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
The marvelous is of necessity a lie, a distortion. At best it is a metaphor which leads to the truth. I think that I know what causes the World's Pain, lady. Or at least I think I know what contributes to that Pain.” "And what would that be, Ulrich von Bek?” "By telling a single lie to oneself or to another, by denying a single fact of the world as it has been created, one adds to the World's Pain. And pain, lady, creates pain. And one must not seek to become saint or sinner, God or Devil. One must seek to become human and to love the fact of one's humanity.” I became embarrassed. "That is all I have learned, lady. (Michael Moorcock)
Feeling that the silver chord of life is loosing, and that his spirit is ready to quit her old companion the body, he extends himself on his bed - closes his eyes for the last time, with his own hands - folds his arms decently on his breast, then breathing out "Father of mercies! take me to thyself," - he fell asleep. Swift on angels' wings the brightening saint ascended; while voices more than human were heard (in Fancy's ear) warbling through the happy regions, and hymning the great procession towards the gates of heaven. His glorious coming was seen far off, and myriads of mighty angels hastened forth, with golden harps, to welcome the honored stranger. View quote
Mason Weems
I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that! View quote
R. L. Stine
Every creative impulse is shadowed by a possessive impulse; even the aspirant to saintliness may be jealous of the more successful saint. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Can one be a saint if God does not exist That is the only concrete problem I know of today. View quote
Albert Camus
Then, as now, the philosopher seemed a living oxymoron: he was an ascetic sensualist, a spiritual materialist, a sociable hermit, a secular saint. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint. View quote
Francis Bacon
There will be no sickness for the saint of God. ... If your body belongs to God, it does not and cannot belong to sickness. View quote
Benny Hinn
Nice person, bad person -- that's not the level this girl is at. I can see you're crazy about her and probably won't be able to hear this, Ao-chan, but I think you'd be better off staying away from someone like her. I can't read her exactly, but I can tell you she's either a saint or a monster. Maybe both extremes at once, but not somewhere in between. View quote
Ryu Murakami
I am a count, not a saint. View quote
Alexandre Dumas
When the prayer is granted, they cheat the saint. (Stefano Guazzo)
Nevertheless, at that moment a saint ruled over the Church. View quote
Anatole France
In my essay, "Eyes in their Last Extremity", I had to say: "How ever alienated one may be from the world, suicide is not a form of enlightenment. However admirable he may be, the man who commits suicide is far from the realm of the saint." View quote
Yasunari Kawabata
I've been travelling a lot. My boyfriend and I, we just went to Santa Fe. You know, the one named after the gay saint. Has anybody ever been to Santa Fe? ...did you know it was a desert? I didn't know it was a desert. Hated it! People had been telling me for years, if you're an artist, a non-conformist, come to Santa Fe! I mean, it's the place you can be yourself! The light, the light, you can paint here! You can live here, the space, the sky! – The fucking dust! I was doing an AIDS benefit there – like what else do I do with my life? View quote
Harvey Fierstein
The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint. View quote
James Fenton